Botswana's ruling party claimed victory in the country's general election on Saturday, extending President Ian Khama's rule over the world's largest diamond producer for another five years, according to Reuters. Khama's Botswana Democratic Party (BDP), in power since independence from Britain in 1966, said it had secured the required 29 of 57 constituences needed to win the election. "We have reached the 29 out of the 57," Langston Motsete, a member of the BDP's election committee, told Reuters.
